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How strong are strong ties? The Conditional Effectiveness of Strong Ties in Protest Recruitment Attempts
(2009)
Why do some individuals accept invitations to participate in protest events while others do not? Using the Citizen Participation Study, the author finds that targets invited by recruiters to whom they are strongly tied are ...
Social networks in low-income communities: the differential effects of weak and strong tiesRedes sociais em comunidades de baixa renda: os efeitos diferenciais dos laços fracos e dos laços fortes
(Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas, 2009)
The role of dual embeddedness in the innovative performance of mne subsidiaries: evidence from Brazil
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03)
This paper explores variability across a set of subsidiaries in a given local context and the same industry in terms of innovative performance as an outcome of the manner and extent to which they embed within both corporate ...
Spreading Influence Through Weak Ties: Cosponsorship, Legislative Networks, and Bill Success in Fragmented Congresses
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-04-23)
Literature on legislative success tends to focus on independent variables of which lawmakers have scarce control. This article analyzes instead how legislators’ strategies affect their success in Congress. I posit that ...
A small world of weak ties provides optimal global integration of self-similar modules in functional brain networks
(National Academy of Sciences, 2012-02)
The human brain is organized in functional modules. Such an organization presents a basic conundrum: Modules ought to be sufficiently independent to guarantee functional specialization and sufficiently connected to bind ...
Social Movements Beyond the Iron Cage: Weak Ties in Territorial Development
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2008)
The incentives and governance system of organizations are important in explaining how they behave in localized development processes. This article builds on the observation that the literature on territorial development ...